ghostly

ghostly
Synonyms and related words:
airy, asomatous, astral, blue, bodiless, cadaverous, corpselike, creepy, deadly, deathlike, deathly, deathly pale, decarnate, decarnated, discarnate, disembodied, ectoplasmic, eerie, ethereal, etheric, extramundane, ghastly, ghostish, ghostlike, ghosty, grisly, gruesome, haggard, immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal, insubstantial, intangible, livid, lurid, macabre, mortuary, nonmaterial, nonphysical, occult, otherworldly, pale, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, preternatural, psychic, scary, shadowy, sinister, specterlike, spectral, spiritual, spooky, strange, supernatural, transmundane, uncanny, unearthly, unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unnatural, unphysical, unreal, unsubstantial, unworldly, wan, weird, wraithlike, wraithy

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  • Ghostly — Ghost ly, a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. g[=a]stlic. See {Ghost}.] 1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor. [1913 Webster] Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • ghostly — O.E. gastlic spiritual, holy; clerical; also ghostly, spectral, pertaining to or characteristic of a ghost; see GHOST (Cf. ghost) + LY (Cf. ly) (1). Related: Ghostliness …   Etymology dictionary

  • Ghostly — Ghost ly, adv. Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • ghostly — index nonsubstantial (not sturdy) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • ghostly — [adj] spooky apparitional, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, divine, eerie, eidolic, ghastly, haunted, holy, illusory, insubstantial, pale, phantasmal, phantom, scary, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, vampiric, wan …   New thesaurus

  • ghostly — ► ADJECTIVE (ghostlier, ghostliest) ▪ of or like a ghost; eerie and unnatural …   English terms dictionary

  • ghostly — [gōst′lē] adj. ghostlier, ghostliest [ME gostlich < OE gastlic, spiritual, spectral] 1. of, like, or characteristic of a ghost; spectral 2. Now Rare having to do with the soul or religion; spiritual ghostliness n …   English World dictionary

  • ghostly — [[t]go͟ʊstli[/t]] 1) ADJ: usu ADJ n Something that is ghostly seems unreal or unnatural and may be frightening because of this. The moon shone, shedding a ghostly light on the fields. ...Sonia s ghostly laughter. 2) ADJ: ADJ n A ghostly presence… …   English dictionary

  • ghostly — UK [ˈɡəʊs(t)lɪ] / US [ˈɡoʊs(t)lɪ] adjective Word forms ghostly : adjective ghostly comparative ghostlier superlative ghostliest reminding you of a ghost a ghostly light/form/sound ghostly pale …   English dictionary

  • ghostly — adjective slightly frightening and seeming to be connected with ghosts or spirits: a ghostly stare ghostly adverb: ghostly pale ghostliness noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • ghostly — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} adj. Ghostly is used with these nouns: ↑echo, ↑figure, ↑glow, ↑presence, ↑shape, ↑silhouette {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} adv. Ghostly is used with these adjectives: ↑pale …   Collocations dictionary

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